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?'>? 'im* ?*Y ?JAYNE8, Hil KLO lt, BM ITU & HT KC IC TO THINK OWN H.KLF BX TBU* AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THK NIGHT THK HAY, THOU CANS'T NOT THKN B WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA. OCT. 7, 1908. NJBW HKIWKH. NO. 888.-VOLUME LH1\-NO. 40. ? lim * CLOTH? IE HAVE A BK BOY'S OLOTI of Clothing, an a fuss with. You v let us show you thr Wo bought some short lots whi wholesale coat ou them-NIC! them, and we closed out the 1 lowor than you evor saw. > loss than the other fellow paid around to see us and we will si . ^ot them so cheap-buying W C. W. & J. E Dr. G. C. Probst, I > ENTIST, Walhalla, S. C. Office Over C. W. Pitchford Co.'s ; : : Store, : : : nouns : 8.30 A. ti. TO 1 i>. M. AND 2 TO 0 r. M. Maroh 24. 1808. Dr. W. F. Austin, DENTIST, SENECA,.S. C. OFFICE DAYS : MONDAYS, THURS DAYS, FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS. January 15, I DO I. K. T. .'AV N KS. I -/Of J. W. SU K LOU. J AYNES & SH ELOR, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, WALHALLA, 8. O. "ORO M PT attention given to all busi .1 noss committed to thoir care. WM. J. STKIUMNO. } ^ E. L. HKHNDON. 8TRIBLING & HERNDON, Attorneys-At-Law, WALHALLA, S. C. PllOMl'T ATTKNTION GIVKN TO ALI, DUSI NKHB ENTIIUSTKO TO TllKM. January 6, 1808. NOTICE TO STOCK RAISERS. "VT El), tho Morgan and Rlaok Hawk J. i Ray Stallion, will stand at my Htafclos, near WostmiiiHtor. Service guar anteed. Foo $10. His wo'ght is 1,000 pounds. R. IL SMITHSON, 3(1 44 Westminster, S. C. LAND FOR SALE. IDESI RF. to sell, at privato sale, the following valuable farming lauds, to wit: All that piree, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Oconee, Stato of South Caro lina, on waters of Little River, contain ing two hundred and lifty aerea, moro or loss, adjoining lands of Mis. M. E. Hun nicutt, Mrs. L. E. Knox, P. A. Drown and others. There aro about. Boventy acres in a high stato of cultivation, also good tenant houses, splendid water power; well timbered, convenient to good schools and churches. Located ou rural mail routo. For. moro particular de scription, terms, etc., call on or writo J. FULTON HUNNIOUTT, Agent, R. F. D.-No. L 80-44 West Union, S. C. FOR CHEAP RATES ir TEXAS, ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, OKLAHOMA, INDIAN TERRITORY, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, UTAH, WYOMING, ORICOON, MONTANA, WASHINGTON, and Other Points Went, Northwest and Southwest, Writ? or cull on J. Q. HOLLRNBKOK, Dlatt lo* Passenger A^snft, Louisville and Nashville R. R. No. 1 Depot, No. 1 North Pryor St., Opposite Union Atlanta, UH. Notice to Trespassers. NOTICE is hereby given to all persons not to trespass on any of tho lands belonging to tho Kuhtmanu estate in any way whatsoever-hy hunting, dig ging roots, cutting timber, setting out fire, hauling pino, making path? or trails, or trespassing in any mannor whatso ever. Parties entering said lands after this notico will bo dealt with to, thc fullest ox tent of the law. (MUSS) L. G. KU HTM ANN. Novomber 30, 1003. 30 -12 FOLEYSHONEY^TAR .tops tlx*cou((h anet X&eale longi 3r STOCK OP ME: UNG. We are now d we have a line wc jill hear from it all ough. IT PAYS TO ile in Nev? York, and we can sell you S, NEW, NOBBY SUITS-only th Yo F A N I \ / bought thin lot ol for j 1AX1 1 M 1 them, and yet ti bow you that IT PAYS T? BUY I OOL GOODS IN SUMMER AND F L BAUKNICH Treasurer's Tax Notice. OfBco of Treasurer of Oconoo County, ) Walhalla, S. C., September 80,1003. J lu ncoorduuco with au act to raise sup plies for the fiscal year commencing Jau uary 1, 1003, notice is hereby given that tho office of Treasurer of Oconoo county will open for the collection of taxes for said Usual year from Thursday, October | ?15th, until Doc .nbor 81. Kates per cout of taxation ar 'as follows: Stato tax. 5 mills. Ordiuary CAiuty tax. 4i mills. (Jonstitu'yonal school tax. 3 mills. SpeciabJax for roads. 1} mills. Speeiartax for C. H. and Jail.. } mill. Total lovy. 15 mills. . Spooial School Levies. Distriot No. 3.2 mills. District No. 5.2 mills. Distriot No. 0.8 mills. Distriot No. 10.2 mills. Distriot No. 17.0 mills. District No. 85.2 mills. District No. 30.2 mills. Distriot No. 75.-2 mills. A poll tax of ono dollar por capita on all mail citizens botweon the ages of 21 and 00 years, except Buch as aro exempt by law, will be collected. A commutation road tax of ouo dollar will be collected at tho samo timo as other taxes from all mail citizens between tho agos of IS and 50 yoars, oxcopt such as aro exempted by law. UnloBS said tax is patd by tho 31st of December, 1008, four days' work upon the public high ways wdl bo required undera contractor. Taxes are payablo only in gold and silver coin. United States currency, Na tional Hank notes and coupons of State bonds whioh become payable during tho year 1003. Parties desiring information by mail in regard to their taxes will please stato tho location of their property and enclose postage for a reply, and those paying taxes by check must include the on argea for collecting. J. K. KAY, Treasuror of Oconce County, 8. (J. September 30, 1003. 39-40 Valuable Farm for Sale. IOFFER KOK SALK my place, con taining 125 acres of good farming land, four miles from Westminster, ad joining lauda of Mr. Dalnes. The farm is well watered and timbered. Two ten ant houses; about live acres branch bot tom and about 30 acres of cotton land in cultivation. I will fake plcasuro in showing auy ono tho placo. Kor terms and prices apply to IL WKKillT OK M. C. WK IO HT, 8JM2* Seneca S. C. THOUSANDS SAVED BY DH. KING'S NEW DISCOVERY T?>?8wonderful medicino pcr tively cures Consumption, Coughs Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, Pneu monia, Hay Fever, Pleurisy, La Grippe, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, Croup and Whooping Cough. Every bottle guaranteed. No Cure. No Pay. Pri?e 50e.ot$i. Trial bottle free. ^ Peone? Martie ai Westmini ALL KINDS OF MONUMENTAL DESIGNING. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. E Ital Barre, (?ail Pnoumatii sat isl,let i, ostly solic pi om pt ar X3i JOB PRINTING Send yoi tionory a ter to Tl The Best is Alw; MHING [ST'S, YOUTHS' and r making a specialty ) are going to make around. Come and BUY FOR CASH. i Good Suits for less than the ey had but a dozen or two of and styles-and the prices are 1 Pants so we can ?bern at nuke money on them. Come 'OR CASH. That is how we AYING CASH FOR THEM. . MERCHANT^. Senator Tillman's View. In the National Magazine Souator Tillman writes of tho possibility of tho repoal of the constitutional amendment granting suffrage to uegroos. He says: I have your lottor of August 20th. You ask mo to express "au opinion as to whethor in tho life of tho present geue ' ratiou wo shall repeal the constitutional amendmont granting suffrage to the ne gro-" I would not bo willing to make a guess J ns to when this will be done, but my judgment is, that ns it was tho first groat blunder in dealing with the race question after emancipation, there can ho no amelioration or remedy for exist ing evils which are recognized^ by all until it is repealed. There 1B nothing moro certain thau that, tho whites of tho South will never submit to negro domination in any form: yot in tho two States of Mississippi ana South Carolina tho negroes outnumber tho whites, 208,870 in the first and 224,702 in the second, while in the six States, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala bama, Mississippi and Louisiana, tho relative numbors at tho last COUSUB wore 4,408,208 whites and 4,438,383 colored. The amendment is now nullified and has boon for upwards of twenty-fivo years. Recent amendments to State con stitutions in tho South have given only temporary relief. Tho white race is pulling against tho law of gravitation as represented by the constantly increas ing number of negroes oligibe to vote. There aro more negro children going to school in South Carolina and Mississippi than there aro whites. When enough negroos aro educated to obtain tho right to vote to outnumber tho whites who can voto, then what? It is doubtful whether a race war will he postponed so long as that. It cer tainly cannot bo if northern fanatics and greedy politicians continue to urgo tho poliey now being pursued. If thc door of hope 1H to bo kept opon to the negroes it must be shut on tho whites. Absolute equality heforo the law would mean negro domination in two States at least, and that is something which will never be permitted. I, therefore, do not hosi'ato to assert that tho amendment will ho repealed, because I do not believe there aro enough fanatics in tho North to force tho other alternativo. Tho uogro must bo subordinate and romaiu so forever or ho will be exterminated. STRAWBERRY PLANTS. Tho . argest Stock in tho World. Nearly 1O0 Varieties. ALL tho choice, luscious kinds for the (?arden and Fancy Market. Also, Shipping Varieties. AIBO, FJIUIT TRICKS OF A i.i. KINDS TO GROWBBS AT WHOLE SALE RATKS, WK WILT, HAVK YOU HALF , IN PLANTING AN ORCHARD. Dewberries, ! Asparagus, Rhubarb, (li ape Vinos, otc. Our 120 Pago M .nuel, free to buyers, enables overybody to grow thom with sins-ess and profit. All plants packed to carry across the continent fresh as when dug. Illustrated Catalogue free. Spocify if you want Catalogue of Shipping Varieties or Fancy Carden kinds. CONTINENTAL PLANT CO., KlTTKBLL, N. C. September 30, 1003. 30-42 ? Granite Works tfe ster*, Ss}. (J. DEALERS IN asl Dorset, Manchester, Pittsford, lian and Georgia Marbles, -AND cy, Westerley aofi Oslesoy Granites. s Tools UBod in tho works, and absoluto m guaranteed. Correspondence earn ited. All orders and inquirios given id careful attention. ? GRAY, Proprietor. ir ordors for Sta- fflTTTI ltd Advertising Mat- I H H ie Courier and get 1 lllJ rxy& the CJlieapest. THE WAREHOUSE PROJECT. Col. Orr Tell* What the Plan Meant lo This Section. In the current issue of the Dixie Magazine, Col. James L. Orr, Presi dent of the Piedmont Manufacturing Co., describes the new warehouse project, which is printed under the head of "The Warehouse in the Cotton Field." What Col. Orr says is of particular interest just ut this time, in view of the big undertaking here and elsewhere in the south. The article is as follows : The oustom of warehousing and advancing mouey on cotton has con fined such operations almost ex clusively to European markets and the north for the reason that the mills in thone sections eventually used all our cotton. Although thu southern mills now use about two and one-quarter million bales, whioh is 25 per cent of our average orop, the former custom still prevails and very little cotton is stored in the south, except by the mills themselves, for the simple reason that money is not advanced at as low rate of iuterest on cotton as it is done in the uorth and particular in Europe. It requires timo to chango commer cial customs, but every interest of the south-tho mills, the ootton merchants and f.he farmers-are vitally Interested in securing cheap money on cotton, and several com munities are moving in this direction. The niOBt important consideration is getting the money, and it is strange that tho bankers of this country, though so muoh ahead of those in Europe in onterpriso, are woefully behind in the matter of advancing money on cotton. Here the rate is high, and investment not sought, whereas in Bremen, Paris, Liverpool and London it is regarded as the safest security on earth, and com mands money at tho very lowest rate. Cotton, in reputably managed standard warehouses, fully protected by insurance, is the best security in tho world. These warehouses should be built and managed in tho south, and will not only give fair returns for the investment, but provo of inestimable value First. To the fnrmcr, for it will enable him to hold such part of his ero]) as he does not wish to sell at small cost, and free from danger of fire or deterioration. Thousands i upon thousands of dollars aro lost annually by farmers who keep their cotton exposed until warm rains of j May como and rot or discolor them. Should the farmor need money to pay for making the crop-as most of them do-instead of pressing his cotton on tho market as fast as it is gathered, he oan put. it in one of j these warehouses, obtain a receipt j for it, giving number of pounds, grades and insurance clause, at a cost of say 20 cents per bale per month ; take that to the nearest bank and borrow say 80 per cent of the value of the cotton. That relieves him of J his obligations to tho merchant, ; avoids forcing his cotton on the j market when it is most abundant, and enables him lo ?ell when his judgment diotates. Second. To the merchant ; for under the present Bystem,- he must sell it immediately to pay the man who has advanced to him ; or, if ho buys for cash, to pay for the cotton itself ; for, if he undertakes to ship it for storage he finds few safo ware houses, has to pay two local freights (to and from warehouses) and a vory heavy rate of insurance, for very fow of public warehouses in tho south are standard slowburning constructions, equipped with modern firo protection. With tho same facilities for shipping, etc., given by tho railroads to the compresses and northern mills, every town with a cotton business of 20,000 bales and every mill center, could have one of these warehouses, which would be patronized both by local merchants and cotton merchants who sell spot cotton for futuro delivory. Without these facilities, as to froight rates, small insurance and ability to borrow money on tho /stored cotton, these merchants can and do sell Now England mills, ono thousand miles from the fiold, cotton for spring delivery for less monoy than they sell tho southern mills. It is all wrong-contrary to the natural laws of trade-injurious to both the merchant and manufacturer ; but it is easier to run in the old road, though tho grades aro steep and tho ruts deep than to survey and cut out a level new road. Third. To tho manufacturers these warehouses would bo of groot advantage, and to tho smaller mills, proportionately tho greatest. Now they must build warehouses for nine months' supply of cotton, and ?ither buy the cotton bofore it is shipped out of thoir torritory or pay about one cent por pound premium for dolivery in the spring, or take the chances of shipping it from points of concentration, almost all of which aro at the ports, where they inour heavy freight charges and competi tion with all the world. If they would build these warehouses, borrow the money, and carry it themselves, they must sell at any price their goods will bring when these notes mature At Anderson, S. C., a warehcne J has been in successful operation for three years, has paid ten per oent dividends and been of great value to the mills, the banks, the merchants and farmers. At Greenville, 8. G, one on a larger scale is building and promises to benefit all interests, aa the three oounties of Greenville, Anderson and Spartanburg probably manufacture 150,000 bales of cotton more than they produoe. The banks and railroads must reoognize the ehanged conditions, that whereas the South formerly raised the cotton and shipped it Nord) and to Europe iu the raw stuto, now it manufactures oue-fourth of it, and must have facilities for holding and storing the staple. And the mill men, merchants and farmers must build the warehouses, manage them properly, see that any breaoh of trust is severely punished and that absolute security is given for roouoy advanced.-Anderson Daily Mail. $100 REWARD $100. Tho readers of, thiB paper will bo pleased to learn that there ls at loast one dreaded disease that science has been ablo to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. 11 all's Catarrh Cure ls tho only posit ive euro known to tho medical fra ternity. Catarrh hoing a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treat ment. Hail's Catarrh is Cure taken inter nally, aotiug dirootly upon the blood and tine-nous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying tho foundation of the disease, and giving tho patient strength by build up tho constitution and assisting naturo in doing its work. Tho proprietors have havo so mueh faith in its ourativo pow ers, that they offer ono hundred dollars for any ease it fails to oure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. CIIKNKY A CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggist, 75o. Hall's Family Pills aro tho best. Providence Intervened. One of tho most miraculous escapes from death which ever occurred in this part of tho world happened right recently at a farm a few miles from Haleigh. Near an old country barn stood a great oak, which had died, but so recently that its withered leaves still furnished some shade. In the porch of the houso sat a, mother while a little negro nurse rolled tho motecr's pretty baby back and forth under the shndo of the sheltering tree. Suddenly as the nurse sang and the baby cooed, tho tree fell, burying in its wreck of branches, child, nurse aud oarriago. One big limb pinned the girl to the earth by ber dress, but sho was unhurt. Hight and left of tho car riage big limbs were broken off and driven deep into the "ground, while under a sort of arch they made was the baby in the carriage, not in the least injured. Tho baby was actually laughing.-P, A. Olds, in Charlotte Observer. Spent Moro Than $1,000. W. W. Baker, of Plainviow, Nob., writes: "My wlfo Buffered from lung trouble for fifteen rs. Sho tried a numher of doctors a . . spent ovor $1,000 without relief. She became vory low and h>Ht all hopo. A friend recommended Foley's Honey aud Tar and thanks to this great remedy, it saved her life. Sho enjoys better health than abo has known in ten years." Refuse substitutes. For salo hy J. W. Hell, Walhalla. Return ol Pension Money. Columbia, October 8.-Between $4,000 of tho pension fund has been returned to tho Comptroller Gen aral this year against $1,900 last year. The large amount returned is due to tho promptness of the Clerks of Courts in returning unpaid pensions, which is very gratifying to the Comptroller General. Requests have been received from applicants for a special meeting of the Pension Board for thoso whose names wero not placed upon the list, but as stated, according to a ruling of the Attorney General, this cannot bo allowed. Mooting of Oconee County Alliance. Tho County Alliance will moot at Bounty Land Acadomy on Saturday, Ootobor 10th, at 10 o'clock a. m. All clubs aro requested to send full delega tions, as businosB of importance will como before tho body. T; Y. Chalmers, President, J. E. Piokott, Seorotary. IT MUST oona Em As inevitable ss the changing sonso is of tba y OMI i-< tin' eluiuj'xi wwi eli UUJUOS ic every woman. And just as one antici pates the changes ol other seasons it is wise to anticipate this change of sea son and prepare for ii. In this way the diacotn forts and disasters suffered by many women at the period of change can be avoided or over come. Dr. Pierce's Fa vorite Prescription, a medicine for every season of woman's life, will entirely meet the needs of women at this period of change. It eurea the physical ills and relieves the mental anxiety and depression usually aasoclnted with this critical period. It tranquilizes the ?ervos, encourages the a'rpetitc and induces refreshing sleep. J. a Cardale, of Manchester, Codec Ca, Tenn., write?i "I bave been ?atna your medi cine* for th.', but ?bricen ar ?aburo ye?? In my Poe?-bon??, t am superintendent of the COOM County tflooc~hoose end A ?yt ?nj oomWiwl. Your ' favorito rrcftcripUon,' ' Golden Medical iAtarrcTf ' ami ' Pleasant Fei Viii ' are the beat anedlcuirfl Ayr ibo diaruses tor which they are rexum mended, that t ever used. They tared my wife's life at the tim? of 1 change or HrV I have been recommending; your medicine to many afflicted women and nave aleo guaranteed that lr lt did not wire I would pay tia ok the money ?pent for lt I ham told our druggist that ff the people came back and mid Doctor Pierce's maxAclnea did not give aslfcuhction. to fi w Oum Mvra tkttr aaaevy 4*4 charge il to mu. have not once been catted upon to refund. I nti-m ne-rer lound anything to equal th? 1 Favorite Prescription ' mr disease* of women, s Dr. Pterce'e Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing om ty. Bend ai one-cent stamps for tho paper covered book, or 31 stamps for tho cloth bound. Addreai Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y, Married St?de/.!?. Among the Wofford boys are two married men-Messrs. Holler of Rook Hill and Carnes of Lanoaster county. Each brings his wife with biro. Mr. Holler will be librarian for the oollege. Each of these men takes up his work where he left it off | several years ago. Eaoh finished the Sophtnore year. While out of | oollege, Mr. Holler has been in busi ness at Rook Hill; Mr. Carnes has' been teaching. Usually when a oollege student with a diploma ahead of bim marries a wife it means farewell to books and student life ; but tbere are some exceptions, and those are two. And who knows whether the good wife in each of these oases was uot the moving spirit in this commendable course of returning again to college tasks V These gentlemen have had ex amples set them by very worthy men. Many readers of the Herald remember the day when the 11-year old daughter of E. P. Taylor pre sented her father a bouquet after he had delivered his graduating address. The home of the little girl is now the h ime of the presiding elder of the Mu??n distriot, South Carolina conference. Rev. E. P. Taylor, bishop of the Pee Dee section, is not ashamed of tho fact that his wife and daughter helped him t-?v win his diploma at Wofford. N So the Rev. W. B. Wim -n ?'Uncle Whit," as the boys ennui him-came to oollege several years after ho married. A suooesful and prosperous business man, "Unole Whit" turned aside from his several business enterprises and spent four years in getting rend y for a larger, fuller life. He is now at the head of the Epworth orphanage in Columbia, S.. C.-Spartanburaj Herald. CO H EH CO a f t-* <i t> tr1 a M cn MILLINERY .OPENING Thursday * * and Friday JZ? October**** SEABORN BROS. Mit EH I-I ?u Gr* EH co m The State Finances. This year the expenses of the State, including all legislative appropriations, amounted to about $1,100,000. The income amounted to about $1,150,00t of which $1,000,000 was received from taxes, $30,000 from insurance feos and $20,000 from obarter feoB. The dis ponsary monoy goes diroot to the schoob and is not included in the State ti nances Tho deficit of $50,000, as seen above, ii small and could bo easily made up if tin annual appropriations aro not increased but tho trouble lies ?if tho fact that th? legislative appropriation for 1003 musl bo paid out of tho income for 1003. Af tho taxes; aro not received from thc couuty treasurers until from Ootober IC to Decembor 31, it can, bo seon why it ia necessary for tho State Treasurer tc borrow during tho first part of tho yoai and as soon as the monoy oomo3 in paj back tho loans, thus starting off tho bexl year in tho same plight. Tho problem then confronting th? Legislature is to devise moans for raisin; onougb inoome to put tho State a yeai ahead instead of a year behind. Yariouf plans have been suggested, ono being 8 tax on corporations known as thc franchise tax, now operating in Georgia, another hoing the planing of all property on tho books at ita true valuation inst uni of a sixty nor oent basis, and still anothoi hoing to divert the $05,000 in insuranoi fees now received by the various oountiei to the State Treasury. The State, of i total of $125,000 received from insurance companios, only gets $30,000, tho res! going to the oounties. The tax commission, composed o Senators Manning and Mower and Re prosentatives Moses, Tatum and Thomas mot hore to-day and considered thesi problems.-Columbia Cor. News ant Courior. A Dozen Times a Night. Owen Dunn, of Henton Ferry, W. Va. writes: "I have had kidney and bladdo trouble for yoars, and it beoame so i>a< that I was obliged to get up at least i dozen times a night. I never receive* any pormanent benoflt from any modi cine until I tried Foley's Kidney Core After using two bottles, I am cured.' For salo by J. W. Bell, Walhalla. ""** a No moro cents aro to be made a the Philadelphia mint in a year unless 'specially ordorod. Purine the past five years 8,000,000,89c pennies have boen shipped from tha mint-the only one that ooins cent : "Walch the Kidneys." "When they are affeotod, life is i danger," says Dr. Abernethy, tba groa Knglisn physician. Foley's Kidno Curo makes sound kidneys. For sale b J, W. Bell, Walhalla. TUB COUHIBB and the Atlanta Const tutlon and the Home and Farra one yea for the sum of $2. Cotton and Frost _____ I A correspondent writes to the Charlotte Obcorvor : Some days ago, a party of Mississippi and Louisiana cotton planters at the Hot Springs, N. G., hotel were discussing the cotton problem of the South and whether the agitation about raising the staple in Africa would ever se riously affect the markets of the world. A successful planter from Texas parish, in Louisiana, thought that Africa could not make any ma terial increase in the yield, for, said he, ".John C. Calhoun and Gen. Hampton were both of the opinion that cotton could not be produoed where the frost never fell, and I agree with them that frost is neces sary tb prepare the conditions for a healthy ootton growth." Continuing, he said the sugar lauds of. Louisiana were the richest in the South, and yet they could not successfully grow ootton. The questiop about frost and fruition of the plant was a new one to most listeners and they did not combat the assertion. A very large and wealthy sugar planter from New Grleans, and who now is also the owner of extensive tracts of land in Cupa, on being told of the discussion, attached little im portance to the proposition about the fall of frost. On one of his plantations in Cuba, was a cotton tree several years old, and the wo men had been gathering the ootton for domestic use as they needed it. On another plantation in Cuba he had successfully raised some sea island cotton and sent it to Now York to a broker who pronounced it worth 28 cents a pound. He had only, however, tried the experiment for one year. He said the reason cotton could not be raised upon tho loamy sugar lands of Louisiana was because the worms and bugB seriously interfered with the growth of the plant. The Texas planter in this connec tion interposed a pertinent question which yet remains unanswered : "If Cuba ie suoh a fine ootton country, why was cotton not raised there dur ing the four years of the civil war, when cotton was worth $1 a pound ?" A Yazoo, Miss., planter volunteered the statement that Mexico had grown some cotton during the war, but could in no way compete with the South, on account of the fact, as he believed that there was insufficient frost to arrest the rank vegetation and bring about a maturing of the plant. There seemed to bo a wide vari ance of views about this cotton and frost question. A large commission merchant from New Orleans, and ono well acquainted with the farm ing interests of his section, said that as sugar making was no longer pro fitable, and had but little future prospects in Louisiana, he know per sonally of a number of sugar plant ers who had gone to raising cotton in the sugar parishes, and that cotton was looking exceedingly well. One friend had 2<J0 acres and another 150 acres of as fine cotton as could be found. The frost did not fall there. What about the cotton of Egypt, aud does the frost fall in Egypt ? ? Foley's Honey and Tar euros coughs and colds and provento pneumonia. Take no substitutes. For salo by J. W. Bell, Walhalla. The Negro Question in the Pubtlc Schools. > Tho negro question, says a Mont? 1 gomery, Ala., letter, was discussed ' at length one duy last week, when a ( bill was called up to appropriate . $2,500 additional annually for a ne J gro school situated in this city. Tho , bill was finally passed by a vote of I 41 to 89. Mr. Wood, who comes i from Tuskegee, where Booker T. [ Washington's school is situated, was i severe in his talk about Washington ! and his methods. Ile said in part : i "The Rev. Sam Jones has been told by Washington, and has printed the ' statement, that not one of hit: r (Washington's) students has been in 1 the penitentiary. A bigger Ho than , than that has never been told. Th? > only two legal hangings in my count} 1 were students of Washington'; f school, and they were charged with i orimes against women. Washington * himself has prosecuted some of hil 5 Student? in the courts in my city f The records of two courts will show - that some of Washington's pupilt . have been convicted of every erinn I known, and that there is not a stu dent of Washington's sohool living in my county that is now earning ar , honest living. I am opposed to giv ? ing money to educate the negrt a along industrial lines." Mr. SimpRon, of Lauderdale, san >. that Mr. Wood did not represent th< sentiment of the South. The members discussed the rac? t question all the afternoon Bossior pro and oon. ' Mr. Vernor, of Tuscaloosa, said ' "God knows I don't favor sootni ' equality or anything like it, but thc t people of Alabama owe the n?grt i. something and it should be paid Thero is not a man upon the floor pl this house that has not gotten mono] n from the sweat of tho negro's brow ,t who worked and toiled for him." y y i >r THE OLD RELIABLE Absolutely Pura WERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE .J. The Title of the Bible. The Bible has a tille of medieval origin. The name Bible comes through the Norman Frenoh from the Latin Biblia, whioh was treated in the middle ages as a feminine sin gular noun, though it was a mere transliteration of the Oreek neuter plural Biblia, meaning books. In ihr Gospels, the Aots and the Epis tles, the boolcB whioh wore read in the Jewish synagogues, are often entitled the Soriptures. Sometimes the law seems to be UBed as a name whioh comprehends thom all. Paul, in a notable pas sage, calls the books of Moses the old covenant, tn the same context ho describes himself and his fellow laborers as "ministers of a now cove nant." Uenoo tho two collections of writings which make up the Bible carno be to oalled the Old Testament and the Now Testament. As to the genuineness of the Old Testament, the writers, with few exceptions, are said to be Jews of Palestine, a people peculiarly sepa rated from the remainder of man kind by their religion, unique cus toms and physical position. These peculiarities are maintained through out the whole books, and no doubt remain with tho Jews until the pres ent day. The existence and author ity of the several books in the New Testament are attested by quota tions in a series of Christian writers, which begins with the immediate successors of the Apostles. Tho oldest known manuscript ia in Greek. It was found bj Tischen? dorf in the convent of St. Catherine, on Mt. Sinai. This manuscript is said to be now in the St. Petersburg library. Other very old manuscripts are preserved in the British museum, the Vatican library, and other places. The Old Testament is divided into four so-called parts : The Pen tateuch, thp fivo books of Moses, the hietorioal books from Joshua to Esther, inclusive, the poetical hooks from Job to tho Songs of Solomon, inclusive, tho prophetical books from Isaiah to Malachi, inolusivo. The New Testament is divided into five parts : Tho four Gospels, two by Apostles and two by Evangelists, The Acts of the Apostles, written by Luke ; the Pauline Epistles, ten ad dressed to churches, throe to persons ; the Catholic Epistles, by James, Peter, John and Jude ; last the Revelation of St. John, the Divine. Grace Beatrice Crenshaw. Bronchitis (or Twenty Years. Mrs. Minerva Smith, of Danville, 111., writes: "I had bronchitis for twenty years aud nover sot relief until I used Foley's Honey and Tar, which is a sure ouro." For salo by J. W. Boll, Walhalla. The Southern Railway has put into operation fifteen miles of dou ble-track between Alexandria, Va., and Sideburn, Va., and expect to put into operation during October double-track as far as Manassas, Va. The movement of traffio on its W ashington division will bo mate rially facilitated by this arrangement. Tho work on its double-track between Manassas and Orange, Va., is pro gressing favorably. 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